Re: bug or undocumented feature

[Jan Schampera]

Mitch Frazier wrote:

> The close appears to be a special case of (from the man page):
> 
>> Similarly, the redirection operator
>>
>>       [n]>&digit-
>>
>> moves the file descriptor digit to file descriptor n,
>> or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n is not
>> specified.
> 
> Not sure if that's a bug or a feature but it should be a feature and
> probably should be documented.

It's not a bug. It's not undocumented per se, it's in the description of
the corresponding input duplication mechanism. It applies to both
duplication methods.

Jan